New research has found bias and bad methodology behind many studies that allegedly prove cannabis workplace impairment can be dangerous. Workplace drug testing has come under fire in the last few years as more states legalize cannabis. Blood tests, which claim to help employers find the best people, have instead become a way to eliminate […]Read More
“We’ve always had a demon,” says author and historian Dan Baum in Public Enemy Number One, a new documentary that traces the history of the War on Drugs in America. “Something about American political culture requires us to have a demon. Go back to Salem. Alcohol was a demon. Communism was a demon, and all kinds of things were justified in the name of fighting communism. This is what we do.” Read More
The head of a federal health agency recently acknowledged racial disparities in drug enforcement and the harm that such disparate practices have caused—and now NORML is asking her to go on the record to further admit that this trend in criminalization is more harmful than marijuana itself. While NORML said it’s not arguing that cannabis […]Read More
You might expect that the biggest cannabis players would be the best-equipped to deal with the new, COVID-19 “normal.” But you might be wrong. Common wisdom says that larger companies would be better prepared to survive the ups and downs of business, especially in times of crisis. But is that necessarily true today as the […]Read More
It hardly seems possible, but it’s been more than six years since adults have been allowed to purchase and use cannabis in Colorado. In that time, citizens have taken enthusiastically to the newly legal product, and the state’s approach is one emulated by others.Read More
One of the problems facing presumed Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden is his “decriminalization” stance on cannabis. He says he knows a lot of “weed smokers,” and he strongly advocates that none of them should be arrested for doing it. That’s good. Yet he doesn’t want it legalized, which means it would still be a […]Read More
This is embarrassing. In Texas, a sheriff’s deputy arrested a Sulphur Springs woman for felony possession of THC gummies and less than one gram of bud, which law enforcement call a “controlled substance.” In another case last week, after a two-month police investigation, a Stamford, Ct. man was arrested with eight pounds of cannabis and […]Read More
“The criminal law is too harsh a tool to apply to personal possession even in the effort to discourage use. It implies an overwhelming indictment of the behavior which we believe is not appropriate. The actual and potential harm of use of the drug is not great enough to justify intrusion by the criminal law […]Read More
People who live in states that have legalized marijuana for adult recreational use broadly feel that the policy has been a success, according to a new poll. A majority of people from eight states that were surveyed said the programs are working well. And in Maine, which legalized cannabis in 2016 but still doesn’t have […]Read More
One of the reasons cannabis legalization for adults has advanced so quickly in the last decade is that it’s no longer a partisan issue. Once, it was all about Democrats. Today, about 2/3 of Americans, according to any poll you happen to wander across, are in favor of legalization, and since there aren’t that many […]Read More
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